Women's Charities

Susan Hall: How much funding have you given to women’s charities since the start of your Mayoralty?

The Mayor: The GLA does not collate information in the way requested. However, grant awards are published on the 360Giving website and all GLA decisions involving expenditure over £10,000 are published on the GLA website.

Men's Charities

Susan Hall: How much funding have you given to men’s charities since the start of your Mayoralty?

The Mayor: The GLA does not collate information in the way requested. However, grant awards are published on the 360Giving website and all GLA decisions involving expenditure over £10,000 are published on the GLA website.

GLA Waste

Gareth Bacon: What steps have you taken to reduce waste and improve efficiencies across the GLA?

The Mayor: I am committed to obtaining value for money. The GLA’s independent external auditors, EY, have concluded that, for the most recent set of GLA accounts (2018-19), the GLA “has put in place proper arrangements to secure value for money in its use of resources.” This conclusion was reported to the 16 October 2019 meeting of the Assembly’s Audit Panel. There were no matters to report in respect of value for money risks.
I have led the way on collaboration and shared services across the Group. I am currently exploring a range of back office shared service initiatives and am ensuring that the Assembly’s GLA Oversight Committee is kept informed of developments. The initiatives will lead to a more efficient and effective GLA Group.
GLA programme budgets and the GLA’s two major grants (to London & Partners and the Museum of London) are frozen each year. Applying an inflation level of 3 per centresults in a notional annual efficiency saving of approximately £3 million across these items.
Innovative approaches are adopted wherever possible. For example, a capital saving of approximately £1 million has been achieved by the project to move GLA data storage to the cloud.